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July 2010

July 11, 2010

The town of Williams is the Gateway to the Canyon. It's a wonderful small town with some nice shops--hi end as well as traditional tourist. Grand Canyon Railway Hotel and the accompanying buffet and gift shop are a great prelude to the train ride here to the rim. We've already done a quick tour of the rim (photos below) and will dine and enjoy a Canyon sunset tonite.

July 10, 2010

Hard to believe we've done so much and it's barely the first leg of this Uniglobe trek.

After 4 hours in the air (and an hour in line for tickets and security), we stopped at a great NY deli in Phoenix. Chompies was recently filmed in an episode of "Man vs Food" which will air July 14th.

Sedona and the red rocks country is just beautiul. Our hotel room patio had a spectacular view of the rocks. A tour guide took us thru Sedona canyon, Slide Rock, residential areas, the quiet meditative views of Chapel in the Rocks. My wife tested our credit card at the hi end shops at Talacapaqui and we did some low end shopping to stash in the souvenier bag.

A huge Thursday dinner at the Open Range grill was followed by great fun Friday with the cowboy buffet and show at the Blazin' M Ranch (see video of "Cowboy Bill" Bryson ropin' a steer on my Facebook page).

It's been a full vacation already and we've just gotten started.

On the bus now to the Lowell Observatory , lunch at the Galaxy Diner on Route 66 and then the Grand Canyon Railroad to the south rim.